Deaths
- 5 January - Adolf Merckle, industrialist (born 1934)
- 2 March - Ernst Benda, politician (born 1925)
- 28 March - Helmut Noller, Olympic sprint canoer (born 1919)
- 23 May - Barbara Rudnik, actress (born 1958)
- 17 June - Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and politician (born 1929)
- 19 June - Joerg Hube, actor (born 1943)
- 30 June - Pina Bausch, choreographer and dancer (born 1940)
- 30 July - Peter Zadek, theatre and film director (born 1926)
- 31 July - Ilona Christen, journalist (born 1951)
- 18 August - Hildegard Behrens, opera singer (born 1937)
- 19 September - Eduard Zimmermann, journalist (born 1929)
- 3 October - Reinhard Mohn, businessman (born 1921)
- 4 October - Guenther Rall, fighter pilot (born 1918)
- 6 October - Werner Maihofer, jurist and legal philosopher (born 1918)
- 9 October - Horst Szymaniak, footballer (born 1934)
- 19 October - Dietrich von Bothmer, art historian (born 1918)
- 10 November - Robert Enke, footballer (born 1977)
- 27 November - Erich Böhme, journalist (born 1930)
- 5 December - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician of the Free Democratic Party (born 1926)
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